Will Oldham Quotes

I still like to go to record stores, I like to just wander around and I'll buy whatever catches my attention.

I used to get a huge kick out of walking into a record store and finding something I didn't know was out.

One of my favorite things to do is sit around and listen to old records... You're forced to listen to the whole thing. And it's so cool digging through the bins trying to find them. I get giddy about records.

Don't get me wrong: there are aspects of buying music online that I love. Instantly being able to hear a song the moment it crosses your mind? Where's the downside? However, I do feel for those too young to remember the thrill of going record shopping.

Sometimes it's good to do something that you've never done before, so yesterday, I went out to buy Elton John's new album.

When I was growing up in the early '70s and really getting into music, waiting outside the record store for that 45, waiting for a single from The Dead, The Clash, David Bowie, or T-Rex or something to be there. There was something about that that was so special.

I miss the experience of walking into a record store and find old stuff without expecting to.

I listen to all kinds of music - new music, old music, music of my colleagues, everything.

I am such a music fiend. I go after so many different types of music. I'm on iTunes constantly just buying new music!

When I think back on it, of course I got lucky and got great directors and good breaks but all that was the physical part. But what made me a star was that I could take a chance and not have anything to worry about in terms of losing.

I don't go to record stores to look at my albums, but it's always a thrill to see them.

I don't think I went a year or so without a record between 1959 and 1979, sometimes two.

I'm just kind of a music junkie. Whatever I'm doing at the moment is my favorite.

I do listen to other music though, and try to pick up what is good.

I love iTunes as much as anybody. It's very convenient and very easy. But there is nothing like the vibe that you get when you walk into a record store. And I think a lot of people are still thrilled to spend a half hour there and go through the bins and make some purchases.

I'm very nerdy about my music, and I like interrogating people about what they put on playlists.

I'm buying records a lot, like, every week I'm just buying old reissues or old originals or new records that I have heard about.

I spent a lot of time in Tower Records. I'm a huge music nerd, and Tower was instrumental to me when I was growing up.

Do you want to be safe and good, or do you want to take a chance and be great?

Whenever I go to a new city, whether visiting or vacationing, I would always make that a point to get to the record store early on, just to get my bearings and see what was going on around town.

I miss independent record stores very much.

As a child, I was this record collector/listener that would sit in a room and listen to the entire Beatles catalog alone, over and over and over again.

Hoover's Music Store in Springfield, Missouri - I would listen to records there for hours.

I occasionally rapped along to some homegrown Korean rap. And then a friend introduced me to Wu-Tang and played me 'Enter the 36th Chambers.' It was very shocking. And then I started to look for different albums. This was pre-Internet, so it's hard to find the music, and it was even harder to find music videos.

When you find new genres of music, you take ownership of them.